In March 2024, Oregon quashed its efforts to decriminalize illicit drugs, which would have been the first of such laws in the nation, but the debate on how to curb the growing drug overdose epidemic ...

Kim Botteicher works in the basement of a Bolivar church. She provides syringe services as part of her charitable work. Credit: Nate Smallwood for Spotlight PA This article is part of The State of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NYC workers may be forced to clean up drug needles next to syringe ‘exchange’ spots thanks to new bill Workers at “needle exchange ...

Decades of research show that syringe programs increase public order, reduce syringe litter, decrease needle-stick injuries, ...

EDWARDSVILLE – An officer poked with a syringe while searching a vehicle driven by a heroin user in June is doing OK and remains on patrol, Police Chief David Souchick said Wednesday. Officer Ryan ...

They hide in weeds along hiking trails and in playground grass. They wash into rivers and float downstream to land on beaches. They pepper baseball dugouts, sidewalks and streets. Syringes left by ...

In the fight against drug overdoses and bloodborne diseases, some Republican and Democratic state lawmakers want to allow groups to hand out medical syringes to drug users in Pennsylvania. Groups such ...

But the prison officers’ union, jail authorities, and the opposition slammed the Australian Medical Association (AMA) idea as “dangerous”, with the union saying jail is for rehabilitation not drug ...

PITTSBURGH — In Pittsburgh overdose deaths are rising: from 2019 to 2020 overdoses increased in the city by 22%. In response, the city announced on Thursday its first syringe service program, one that ...

"Let's rethink glass," says specialty glass and glass ceramics developer Schott (Elmsford, NY) on its website. Sometimes, that revisionist thinking leads to plastics. At Interphex 2015, which was held ...

Workers at “needle exchange” spots across the city may be forced to collect used drug syringes that end up as litter under a new bill unveiled Thursday. Council member Oswald Feliz’s new bill would ...